To hate the soppy Christmas ads (I see you, John Lewis) and how they take a classic song and destroy it

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I hate all those wet, faux sentimental Christmas ads with a purple passion. I particularly hate how they take a classic song and turn it into something that sounds like it is being sung by a dying dog..that needs a wee..and a poo. Don't get me wrong I looove Christmas but those adverts..just..no!

100% with you ad haters. So glad it's not just me. Wish I didn't have to hear about them let alone see them. Cringe making.

What's with the sudden excitement about Christmas adverts? And the upset? Get upset about something worth getting upset about..... jeeez

Ffs it's a fucking ADVERT!!

Thanks op, feel better now

Not an Xmas ad, but the song on the Lloyds ad gives me the RAGE.

I have often suspected how I perceive the world is not how the majority do.
I present the evidence:

1. How dare they ruin a BEATLES SONG. Not possible as the Beatles did that all on their own. Overhyped, whiny, nasally, creepazoids.

1. Guy Garvey this Guy Garvey that.... who?? Just Googled, no wiser.

1. The slowed down breathy breathing everyone dislikes? It might not be winning any awards but it does give those with respiratory problems the chance to sing at karaoke and sound correct.

Now to reGoogle that Garvey chap and see what I'm missing.

Bloody breathy "stripped back" (as they say on Xfactor, every, fucking, week) versions of classic songs from my youth should have a twat tax stamped on them. The JL snowman as from a few years ago had had what sounded like "the power of love" sung by sugared mice, the fucking pinks at that! Don't even get me started on what Ellie Golding did to "your song" a few years ago, she hiccups through most of it and can't even be arsed to sing the right words, I don't care if it was for charity, she didn't so much as murder that song, but filmed herself pissing on the grave and WhatsApped it to Elton Johns kids. Evil!

OpalMoon it does give those with respiratory problems the chance to sing at karaoke and sound correct.

Don't you fucking dare! I'm asthmatic and I'd rather wheeze through a rendition of Eminem than sing any of those annoying slowed down breathy songs. I'll save that for when I'm on my deathbed thanks!

Funny bit on last nights The Now Show about exactly this

Oh the irony of a PP who points out that the JL monster has Morrisseys nickname and that she hates Morrissey THEN goes on to say her favourite JL was the one with the wee boy who wanted to give its parents his present which featured a breathy version of a Smiths song 😀😀😀

I hated the Sainsbury's one a few years back where the soldier gives the nazi a chocolate bar. I mean it was a lovely piece of film making and if it was a short film or even for a charity advert...but the fact it was for Sainsburys made me feel quite ill.

Gary Jules was a couple of years after The Travis Incident.

Tonight I heard a fatty noise on my telly...and oh my days it's the bloody UK ad....quickly looked away ...close call!! But dearie Me, why do they drearify songs..

The German soldier wasn't a nazi, the advert was about the Christmas Day football match that took place in 1914. It would have been so much better if the British Legion had used that idea for their poppy sales in 2014, and not Sainsbury's.

Farty noise not fatty stupid autocorrect

Not an Xmas ad, but the song on the Lloyds ad gives me the RAGE.

Me too!

But the worst offender has to be Boots, for bringing out a summer ad with a reworking of Wizard's classic Christmas song, I wish it could be Christmas every day. Bastards.

Haven't RTFT but what is that song on the JL advert? It’s really lovely.

It a Beatle song sung by Guy Garvey

Thanks Jojoanna

Travis was 2000 and at the time described as tongue in cheek. Seems like everyone missed the irony.

I will NOT have them blamed for the abomination that is Coldplay thank you. People always seem to miss that travis are actually very funny in that dry self deprecating Glasgow Way.

totally misses point of thread

At least this year it’s not someone ringing breathily with just a piano. So it’s slightly better. Slightly.

Just like Alf Garnett was interpreted as a green light to bigots the length and breadth of this blessed isle, so Chris Martin etc ignored the nuances of Travis and whined incessantly for money and airplay in their wake. The monster is one that they have created.

As an aside, I love the idea of a fatty noise.

My body makes quite a few fatty noises unintentionally